Unleashing the Power of 24 Hours | Jentezen Franklin

Thank you for joining us today on Kingdom Connection. I'm Jensen Franklin and it's an honor to come every week or every day in many cases into people's homes and lives and share the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ. Today's message is going to be very practical and it's one that it has really impacted me and helped me. It really spoke to me. You begin to see in Scripture how that so many things are tied to a 24-hour time period and I want to talk to you about the huge difference just 24 hours can make in your life. I'm preaching today on unleashing the power of 24 hours. You're gonna see a pattern and I'm gonna share it with you over and over and over in this message of what an amazing difference 24 hours can make in your life. Today is the day of salvation and you may think, well I don't know if this is for me today. This is definitely for you. This is how you change your whole destiny. It can happen in just 24 hours. Listen to this message, the power of 24 hours. It's going to change your life. Together we're inspiring people to live for Jesus. If you're looking for more in life, to live with purpose and peace, to make a difference for your family and those in need around the world, Jesus is the answer and our mission is to simply point you to Him. You're watching Kingdom Connection with Jensen Franklin. Today I want to preach on unleashing the power of 24 hours. The power of daily. You know, yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and all you really have is today. Destiny is a daily decision. It's not an accident. It's not happenchance. Your daily routine is the secret to failure or success. Success is hidden in daily routine. It's true in life and it's true especially in being a Christian. What was the expiration date on manna? God fed them every day when they were in the wilderness and the Bible said if they didn't gather it in a 24-hour time period, worms would fill it and they couldn't eat it. What is the deadline in the Bible on anger? The scripture said 24 hours. Don't let the sun go down on your wrath. 24 hours is the deadline on anger and most of us have broken that one a lot. But I wonder what it does to our body. I wonder what it does to our health. How often does God's mercy show up in your life? The Bible said morning by morning his mercy is renewed. That's a Bible verse. Every 24 hours God has new

mercy. How often did Jesus say take up your cross? The text said take up your cross daily. If anyone desires to come after me let him deny himself and take up his cross daily. If you really want to be a New Testament Christian it is not a Sunday thing that you go to church to prove you're a Christian. It is a taking up of denying the flesh daily. Daily you take up your cross. When should we be glad and rejoice? The scripture said this is the day the Lord has made. I will be glad and rejoice in it. So this is the day the Lord has made. Yesterday is over and tomorrow we're not promised. All that you have, really all that you can be sure of is your praise in this service. If this were your last service, if this were the last opportunity in this life you were given. to worship God, how passionate would you be? In the first day God created in creation, the scripture said He created evening and then there was morning. And that was the first day. That's completely different from how we think of a day and how we determine a day. We think the new day starts and in the morning and the evening, but God said, I started that evening and the morning were the first day. God says, I don't care how dark it is, the day is not over, it's not over until the sun comes up. When you understand that, that destiny is not a mystery, that destiny is a decision and you're one decision away from a brand new life. If you want a change, you have to change your daily routine. The secret to success is hidden in one's daily routine. And when you get to that place

that you begin to walk daily with God, and I'm a pastor, so I'm not here to thrill you necessarily with a sermon every time I get up here. What I am here to do is to really encourage you to walk with Jesus. I must decrease, He must increase in your life. At some point, a pastor is not enough alone. You're supposed to be growing daily in your walk with the Lord. There are blessings for God's daily people that other people miss that are tremendous. Proverbs 8 and verse 34 says this, blessed is the man that heareth me watching daily at my gates, waiting at the post of my doors. Matthew 6 and verse 11, Jesus said, give us this day our daily bread. Matthew chapter four, he said, we don't live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. Luke chapter nine and verse 23, if any man will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. Daily, we're supposed to die to what we want and what we do. People who call themselves Christians, there's no cross in their life. Many of them, they don't ever think of denying themself anything, whatever they want.

But when Christ is the center of your life, you take up your cross daily. I live for Him. I live to please Him. I live to honor Him. I need to constantly be in His presence because He is my daily bread. Listen to this great verse, Luke 19, verse 47 and 48. And he taught daily in the temple. Jesus made it a point to teach daily. The apostle Paul surrendered himself to God daily in 1 Corinthians 15 and verse 31. He said, I die daily because he was walking in the spirit daily and teaching daily. Not all days are created equal. Trials and traumas come. And when they come, you don't have time to do, you know, to hope you open up the book somewhere. That verse you read daily may mean nothing to you that morning, but when you get and hit that trial that afternoon, it may be the very thing you needed to know to stay steady because God already put it in you that something's coming today, but don't be afraid. Be strong and courageous. I'm with you and I'll see you to the other side. This is how Christians are to live their lives daily in God's presence. Jesus said, if you suffer with me, you will reign with me, especially those of you

who are coming daily to me and getting my wisdom and getting my teachings. I will teach you, I will lead you, I will cause you to grow daily, but you've got to walk this thing daily. Listen to this scripture. And it says, but exhort one another daily. That's Hebrews 3 and 13. But exhort one another daily. Do you know what the word exhort means? It means lift up one another daily. Encourage one another daily. What about the husbands and the wives? Encourage, lift up, hallelujah. God, help me to be positive. Stay positive. Turn to somebody and say, be positive. Stay positive. Exhort one another. Encourage one another. Call your brothers and sisters. Call your friends. Call people, God. The Holy Spirit will put people on your heart to pray for. Call their name out. And then pick up the phone and say, you're gonna make it. Exhort one another daily while it is called today. Don't wait till another day. Don't wait till tomorrow. Get it together for your kids.

Get it together for your family. Get it together for your home today. Psalm 68, I'm almost done. Blessed be the Lord. Man, I tell you, if you don't get nothing else out of this sermon, I want you to take this one home with you. Blessed be the Lord who daily loads us down. What a good God. What a mighty Savior. What a faithful King who daily loadeth us with benefits even the God of our salvation. And that word Selah means think about this. It literally means take a praise break. It literally means, if you look up the word Selah, I did a study on it one time. And it means to get up, when you get something from God, to get up sometimes. You know, David would say Selah. He would get something from God and he would have to get up. He'd have to stop all his revelating and just walk off and just woo. Oh, come on, Selah. Take a praise break. He's loaded you down with benefits. You're sitting there where my back is aching and you know, we're getting old. Oh, shut up. He's loaded you down with benefits.

Didn't any of you ride a mule to church? Didn't any of you go hungry yesterday that didn't want to? Hallelujah. Do you know that if you're in the top 100% financially of the people in the earth, close to eight billion, you know, what would you think you would need to make to be in the top 1% of the human population? And I asked this morning, somebody yelled out from this side, 70,000. Somebody else yelled out 50,000. And some went higher than that. But do you know that according to the global rich list, you're on it. That's a real thing because if you make $32,000 a year, you're in the top 1% of the earth's population. If you only make $25,000 a year, you're in the top 2% of the earth's population in wealth. If you have hot and cold running water, air condition, a car and clean clothes, you are highly favored and blessed. Daily, we could have been born in some place lost and poor and pitiful, but every one of you, I'm looking at every one of you and you're more blessed than 98% of the human population and yet we gripe and complain. But Selah, think about this. He daily loads you down with everything you need. His hand provides. Clap your hands and praise Him like a maniac. Hallelujah. Be thankful unto Him.

Oh, we all wish we had something and then when you get it, it ain't what you thought it was. But boy, if you've got Jesus, He said, I'll daily load you down. I'll take care of you. I'll supply all your needs according to my riches and glory through Christ Jesus. Hallelujah. Listen to this. They continued Acts chapter three daily in the apostles doctrine. What does it mean to be a Christian? You continue, you continue daily. Acts three said now when Peter and John went up into the temple at the hour of prayer being the ninth hour, it was 12 noon. They had a time set, a place set, and there was a lame man laying there. Now I want you to think about this because Jesus had gone through that same gate over and over and over when he was alive. And I'm sure if that man was laid there daily, whom they laid daily, the text says in verse two, whom they laid daily, Jesus had passed him by over and over apparently, but they kept laying him out. And on this day, Simon Peter and John come and the man says, give me. And he says, silver and gold have I none, but such as I have, I give it to you in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk. And here's my point. Had the man not kept showing up daily, you never know what day is the tipping point for your family. A day can change decades. One day, one day, one day, one. You may be one hallelujah short of the heavens breaking open and the beam of God's light coming to the darkest area of your life. I close with this, but I read when I was writing the book, the power of short prayers, I read again, the story of Adam and Eve, and I saw something I had not seen.

Adam and Eve were in the garden and every day at the scripture said in the cool of the day, they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. Why the cool of the day? Because anytime God starts walking with you, it's cool. I know I'm kidding, but it's in the cool of the day. And Adam and his wife on this day, because he had, he would do it every day. I want you to imagine as the sun is setting is what that means. The sun's on their back and here comes God in the garden. Oh, this is what he loves daily. He would show up at the end of the day and walk in the garden with them. Look at the animals. But on this day, they had sinned and they hid themselves from the presence of God. Thank you. That's good. And they hid themselves from the presence of God. Now watch this, watch this. But the scripture said, God showed up. You think he didn't know they had failed? You think he didn't know that they had done evil, but God still showed up. And when you understand that on your worst day, he still shows up. On the day that you mess up the worst and the most, on the day that you shamed yourself, you want to hide from him. If you keep coming to him on the good days and on the bad days, you just keep coming and you keep saying, I'm here again. I'm here. mentioned this in the book, I was thinking about it and sometimes when I go to my prayer place, and for years and decades, it's been woods and paths, and I don't go in with a lot of words sometimes. And when I start walking, it's like everything else

I try to tune out of my mind and I say, Lord, I'm here. Sometimes I've said these words, I don't even know what to say, but I'll be on this trail for about an hour and a half and I'm open and I'm gonna sing to you. Sometimes you wonder, where did these songs come from that when I'm preaching, I'll just start singing a song or flowing, it's cause I've sung them to him a lot of times and I'll just have a song come to me that I hadn't thought about in 30 years. And it's not about praying some kind of religious, be thou thou'st, great almighty, it's just he wants to be with us daily. Daily. And when you start doing it daily, he changes you more and more. Enoch walked with God and was not because God took him. I'm gonna tell you something, if you're not walking with him daily, when he comes back again, he's gonna come back in the moment, there is one day, there is one day that is stamped rapture. One night, we don't know, like a thief in the night and I hear these people all the time say, well, I've heard that all my life. You know what that means? You know what the apostles preached? They preached Maranatha, the Lord cometh. They would end sentences or they would greet one and Maranatha, which means the Lord cometh,

the Lord is coming. They were saying it 2000 years ago and now 2000 years after that, people say, well, I've heard that all my life. I don't believe it. Yeah, but this is different. All you gotta do is get a Bible and a newspaper or look online and you can see the prophecies lining up just like, this world has no hope without Jesus if you haven't figured that out. But here's what I'm trying to get you to understand. One of these days, if you're walking with him, he's gonna take you. He's gonna take you. If you're walking with him, he's gonna take you and it's daily. Love him daily, worship him daily. Make yourself, set that discipline up. 10, 15, 20 minutes, read his word, his, take in prayer and just talk to him. Talk to him, say, this is our time. This drive time will become God time.